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As a former dentist, Berdimuhamedow served in the government of the president, Saparmyrat Niyazow, as the Minister of Health in 1997 and as the 3rd Vice President in 2001. He became acting president following Niyazow's death on 21 December 2006 and subsequently won the 2007 presidential election.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov (born June 29, 1957, Babarab, Turkmenistan, U.S.S.R.) is a Turkmen dentist and politician who served as president of Turkmenistan (2006–22) and as chair of the People’s Council (Khalk Maslahaty; 2021– ).
Turkmenistan’s President Serdar Berdymukhamedov has appointed his father to lead the country’s newly formed supreme representative body, further expanding his clout in the gas-rich Central Asian nation.
He succeeded his father, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow when the latter stepped down in 2022 after a reign of 15 years, the first president to do so. In the 2022 election, Berdimuhamedow received 72.97% of the country's popular vote against nine other candidates.
A year later, in March 2022, Berdimuhamedov’s son Serdar was elected president and replaced his father at the technical top of the Turkmen government. The elder Berdimuhamedov did not go far,...
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Instead, the elections in the isolated post-Soviet dictatorship were held to formalize an unexpected reform of the power system initiated by former president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, father of President Serdar Berdymukhamedov.
The essence of the entire narrative of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's presidency is that he was able to build a multi-vector system of relations between all economic entities within the country and identified key theses in the foreign policy course.
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov became the president of Turkmenistan in February 2007 following the death of the country’s first president, Saparmurat Niyazov. Berdimuhamedov served as president for...
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has been the president of Turkmenistan, one of the world's most restrictive and secretive countries in the world, since 2006. Activists have decried the country's...